Louise Thompson Patterson
Subtitle: a life of struggle for justice
By: Keith Gilyard
Contributors: Duke University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780822369851; 9780822369929
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: African American women social reformers; African American women political activists; Biography; African American communists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Louise Alone, 1901-1916; title: California community, 1917-1925; title: Shades of control, 1925-1928; title: Harlem kaleidoscope, 1928-1932; title: Madam Moscow, 1932; title: The struggle has nine lives, 1932-1934; title: Popular fronts, 1935-1937; title: Ba ba ba bop, 1937-1940; title: Bronzeville brigades, 1941-1949; title: Sojourns and sojourners, 1949-1959; title: A fairer public hearing, 1960-1969; title: Confirming commitments, 1970-1984; title: Still reaching, 1984-1999.